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Ezekiel Hunter "Dooner" Wilson Jr., a retired Baltimore internist whose career spanned more than four decades, died of congestive heart failure Monday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 88. "Dooner was a very accomplished person," said retired Baltimore urologist Dr. Earl P. Galleher, who became acquainted with Dr. Wilson when the two 17-year-olds were being interviewed for scholarships to Princeton University. "And he was extremely highly regarded as a physician." The son of E. Hunter Wilson, a businessman, and Shirley Skinner Wilson, a homemaker, Ezekiel Hunter Wilson Jr. was born and raised at a home near the Choptank River in Cambridge. He...

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